Note 232 — Chapter IV · CHICAGO IN THE REVOLUTION
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The settlements on both sides of the Mississippi were referred to as the settlements of the Illinois. In Navarro's official report concerning the attack on St. Louis in 1780 that place is designated "San Luis de Ylinoises" (Wisconsin Historical Collections, XVIII, 407).
[233] Michigan Pioneer Collections, IX, 559.
[234] De Leyba had died shortly after the British attack of 1780 and before the arrival of the news that his government had promoted him for his conduct on that occasion (Wisconsin Historical Collections, XVIII, 410).
[235] Ibid., 414.